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...Immediately after the bombing, liberal politicians and commentators began suggesting that this would hurt President Bush's plan for a national missile defense. Their logic: if terrorists can wreak such havoc with airplanes and box cutters, what good is a massively expensive system designed to swat back incoming intercontinental missiles? "This is going to raise a lot of questions about missile defense," Democratic Senator John Kerry told TIME. But it's not hard to imagine a different scenario. Suddenly the threat of rogue states and massively organized terrorist groups getting hold of a missile doesn't seem as farfetched. Indeed...
...that they're joked about in public by the protagonists. There is nothing unusual or necessarily counterproductive about an administration making its decision on the basis of input from both hawks and doves. But when such disputation is telegraphed to a wired world in real time, it can wreak havoc with U.S. diplomacy. Does the administration regard China as a "strategic competitor"? Depends who you ask. Does the U.S. condemn Israel's track-and-kill policy towards Palestinians accused of terrorism? Again, depends whether you're listening to Cheney or the State Department. And in instances where Washington wants...
...problems for Israeli officials on a European continent where enthusiasm for cross-border human-rights prosecutions has been aroused by the Pinochet and Milosevic indictments. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres maintains that the same principle could be applied against any Palestinian representative who had been involved in terrorist actions and wreak havoc with European efforts to engage with both sides. That argument may resonate with politicians engaged in trying to revive the peace process, but it?s unlikely to deter the lawyers and judges pursuing cases against Israeli leaders. And that has forced Israel's foreign ministry to counsel extreme caution...
...this point, the key for McVeigh is planting the idea that the FBI totally overlooked a mass murderer or two or three. By suggesting such a foul-up, McVeigh can accomplish what he set out to do in the first place: Wreak psychological havoc on the establishment...
...frustrating for the loved ones of his victims and the American public at large, but U.S. security and intelligence services have managed to foil a number of subsequent plots linked with the Saudi financier through patient intelligence gathering and cooperation with law enforcement agencies in foreign countries. Plans to wreak mayhem in Seattle and in Jordan at the dawn of the Millennium were thwarted by good police work, and there have, no doubt, been other successes that those in charge of the nation's security have chosen to keep secret...